For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game Grantland Rice 1880-1954 US Sportswriter
I have always looked upon cricket as organised loafing William Temple 1881-1944 British churchman
It's not in support of cricket but as an earnest protest against golf Max Beerbohm 1872-1956 British Writer Said when giving a shilling towards W.G. Grace's testimonial
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 Irish dramatist and critic
Cricket is basically baseball on valium. Robin McLaurim Williams US Actor 1952 -
Yorkshire 232 all out, Hutton ill - I'm sorry, Hutton 111 John Snagg British Broadcaster 1904 - 1996
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches Paul Hogan Australian Actor 1939 -
There is a widely held and quite erroneous belief that cricket is just another game Prince Phillip Member of British Royal Family 1921 -
The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give then some idea of eternity George Bernard Shaw
…. And all over the world each nation's the same They've simply no notion of playing the game They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won And practice beforehand which spoils all the fun …….
'The English' Michael Flanders & Donald Swann Songwriters 1922-1975 1923-1994
